Why are they planting a tree at KO?

3-0 Uruguay ?? this is the Chile/Ecuador thread inatimate

chile don't look like trying to contrive a draw at the moment

Chile rampant at the moment

maybe if its 0-0/1-1 with 20 minutes to go you might see the 2 teams messing about , otherwise Chile look like they're going for the win

chily on fire as expected

You have to take Chile on the AH if you are going to back them. The threat of settling for the draw is high, not dependent on what is currently happening.

Asian

Surely if these two teams know ura are winning they will just play out the draw

Ecuador don't win away at the best of times

Because, this game has gone crazy with the price of the draw, yes both teams will get through if it finishes that way, but even if there is a result then Uruguay need a big turn around, I don't disagree with it being the most desirable outcome, there have been games where a draw is the perfect result, including Internationals at the big stages, the aforementioned Austria - Germany match, and a 2-2 between Denmark and Sweden spring to mind, but there's no point believing that one game is going to be a set up if the other one isn't going to follow a similar sort of pattern. Just saying that logically, Uruguay and Argentina both "know" that Uruguay need a good margin of victory, the same that Chile and Ecuador "know" a draw is good enough for them. In the same way that this game is likely to end in a "predictable" draw, the other game should be just as likely to finish in a "predictable" decent win for Uruguay, but rather than playing with odds of around evens, the odds are more appealing in the other game.
Yes it's probably the wrong place to post that comment, but I was just trying to offer a bit of an idea for the conspiracy theorists among us that the value rather than lying in a nailed on draw could lie in a much better priced proposition in the other game

When news comes through Uruguay are winning they would be mad to attack each other

RMB © 16 Oct 13 00:42 
If Chile are going for the win, why aren't Ecuador going to go for the win? If so, why are they 15.0+




Because if there's no agreement to play for a draw and they play out a 'normal' game, then Chile are much the better side. Ecuador only qualify because of their home record at altitude, they are usually shocking away.

Ecuador aint playing like 15.0's dogs

Agreed, but under normal circumstances, Ecuador would be a lot shorter than 15.0, and rightly so.

Ecuador have only won 4 away qualifiers since 2001 and 3 of those were v Bolivia

Uruguay need to thump Argentina and hope one of these sides gets thumped to go through.

Spot on.

top 4 qualify automatically , 5th place team wins the right to play off against the CONCACAF play off team

Pressure is eased greatly by the fact that the 5th place side has a play off against......Jordan.

Tough game!